Author: Amanda McGarrigle

Geography—Term 1
Ancient Greece

Background Information
Pupils should extend their knowledge and understanding beyond the local area to include the United Kingdom and Europe, North and South America. This will include the location and characteristics of a range of the world’s most significant human and physical features.
They should develop their use of geographical knowledge, understanding and skills to enhance their locational and place knowledge.

In this unit the children will…
Use maps, atlases and globes to locate Greece and its major cities and describe the features, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical and human characteristics, countries, and major cities
Describe key aspects of types of settlements in Ancient Greece and compare to modern houses
Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of physical and human geography of a region in a European country (Greece) and compare with a region in UK
Identify population and land utilization for Ancient Greek cities

By the end of this unit….
All children will:
develop contextual knowledge of the location of globally significant places – both terrestrial and marine – including their defining physical and human characteristics and how these provide a geographical context for understanding the actions of processes
understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world
Be competent in the geographical skills needed to:
collect, analyse and communicate with a range of data gathered through experiences of fieldwork that deepen their understanding of geographical processes
interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including maps, diagrams, globes, aerial photographs and Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.
Some children will:
understand the processes that give rise to key physical and human geographical features of the world, how these are interdependent and how they bring about spatial variation and change over time

The children will explore:
Using maps, atlases and globes
Identify population and land utilization
Describing the human and physical features of the European country Greece
Comparing the capital city of Greece—Athens— to the capital city of England—London (Climate, population,

Key Vocabulary
Athens, Sparta, Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Ionian Sea, Sea of Crete, Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Mount Olympus, Mount Parnassus, Crete, Rhodes, Limnos
Physical geographical features, human geographical features, climate
Land utilization